Do languages and cultures fascinate you? Do you love words?
Welcome to Susanna Janssen’s wondrous world of words.
Wordstruck! will entertain you with a wealth of humorous and insightful reflections on language and cultures. Dive in anywhere and delve into everything from cockney slang to terms of endearment around the world; from the genius of Shakespeare to foreign translations gone riotously bad; from why we say “hello” when answering the phone to why there are several hundred Arabic words in our language.
Discover fascinating word origins, fall in love with metaphor and malapropisms, learn how to spot liars through their words, uncover the secrets to building the brain like a muscle, and find out what really goes on behind foreign language classroom doors.
Have a love affair with the lexicon—Let Wordstruck! feed your brain, warm your heart, and tickle your funny bone.
Wordstruck! is the 2017 winner of three national awards including First place in the Humor category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
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Contents
CHAPTER ONE
Life and Language in the USA
The Tower of Scrabble Babel
You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello
The US and “Them” View of the World
Minding the Metaphor, Part I
Minding the Metaphor, Part II
Let’s Play the Dictionary Game!
Pants on Fire
How Are You Fixed for Time and Money
CHAPTER TWO
Whence These Words
The Herd Mentality
Shakespeare: The Legacy in His Lines, Part I
Shakespeare: The Legacy in His Lines, Part II
On the Trail of Word Origins, Part I
On the Trail of Word Origins, Part II
On the Trail of Word Origins, Part III
The Familiarity of Foreign
The Scholar’s Ink and the Martyr’s Blood
CHAPTER THREE
Grammar Grievances, Malaprop Muddles, and Pronunciation Pickles
Inconstant Consonant and Sudden Vowel Movements
Grammurder in the First Degree
Grammurder in the Second Degree
The Law of Schwa
The Abdominal Snowman on the Cal-Can Highway
Into the Prepositional Fray
CHAPTER FOUR
Windows on the World
It’s All Bubble and Squeak to Me
Lost (but Not Forgotten) in Translation
We Don’t Have a Word for It, Part I
We Don’t Have a Word for It, Part II
News from the World of Words
Speaking of Tongues
Pigments of our Imagination
Between the Sword and the Wall
The Language Police
Rum and Revolution, Part I
Rum and Revolution, Part II
CHAPTER FIVE
The Wonders of the Bilingual Brain
Riding the Silver Tsunami
The Best Brain Elixir
The Blooming Brain
The Tongue May Stumble, But the Brain Purrs
The Job Seeker’s Competitive Edge
CHAPTER SIX
A Life in Words
Make Love Not War
Don the Noose for Biscuits
All About Me, the Sequel
All About Me, Prequel I
All About Me, Prequel II
Ez Dakite Euskaraz Hitz Egiten Duzu?
The Cure by Feeding of Earworms
A Girl (Not) Named Sue
Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part I
Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part II
Behind Closed Classroom Doors, Part III
CHAPTER SEVEN
Marking Moments in the Year
High Notes on Highway 99
May Your Days Be Merry and Bright
Have a Feliz Navidad and a Diglot New Year
And the Word of the Year is…
“Reach Out” and “Open Your Kimono”: A Lexical Review of 2015
The Secret to Everything, Part I
The Secret to Everything, Part II
Around the World in Cupid’s Quiver
Mary and the Merry Month of May
The Yodeling Dutchman: A Father’s Day Tribute
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